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MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — Just before the judge handed down a 19-year prison sentence, the man convicted of seriously injuring a woman in a purse snatching turned to face her as she sat in the courtroom.

“I’d like to apologize for what I had done. It was not my intention to hurt you. I ask you to forgive me,” Arthur Sheard Jr. told his victim Thursday.

A silver car slowly drove through the lot. It appeared the driver was looking for an opportunity. He spotted his victim loading groceries into her vehicle. Sheard then drove up, reached out the window and grabbed the victim’s purse from her cart.

She grabbed back, and as Sheard drove away, he pulled the victim hanging on to the purse strap with him. She eventually hit a parked car and suffered serious head injuries.